The aerospace industry continues to evolve and grow in complexity as a result of market segmentation, shifts in geographic focus, modernization of production and ever more demanding speed-to-market requirements.

Automotive

The automotive industry’s complex supply systems pose a particular challenge and require expertise in information design, process planning and operations efficiency. This is because the delivery of components from numerous companies in different countries must be carefully coordinated to ensure a smooth manufacturing and assembly process.

Chemicals

In today’s competitive business environment, the chemical goods supply chain has become more complex, leading to increased logistics and transport spending due to rising labor and fuel costs, tightening security controls, environmental aspects as well as unreliable deliveries.

Consumer and Retail

Today the supply chain environment, and consequently the consumer and retail industry, are facing different challenges than in the past. Sourcing has become global, distances longer and the economy more fragile. Furthermore, the industry is characterized by increasingly demanding and informed consumers.

Energy

Our specialized service for the energy and capital projects sector has the scale, breadth and capability to match the ambition of our customers’ projects.

Fashion

The fashion industry has sophisticated and demanding consumers who require multi channel offering, brand experience, personalization and increased product differentiation. This leads to shorter product life and increased need for innovation, flexibility and enhanced order fulfillment certainty.

Government, Aid and Relief

Serving the government, aid and relief sector is very demanding. It is a complex and dynamic environment that shifts with the geopolitical landscape, and where humanitarian crises or natural disasters require an agile and rapid response.

Healthcare

Panalpina offers a wide range of logistics and supply chain solutions to deliver your pharmaceuticals and medical products safely, and on-time, to any location in the world.

Hi-tech

The hi-tech industry requires fast and reliable logistics chains that link the industry’s key production sites with distribution channels throughout the world. Whether you are in the semi-conductor industry, the computer and electronics industry, or provide electronic manufacturing services, we understand your business and requirements.

Manufacturing

In today’s constantly evolving manufacturing landscape, enhanced demand variability challenges manufacturers to increasingly streamline their processes in order to remain competitive and drive business growth.

Perishables

In the perishables industry where consumers demand a full range of fresh products all year round, success relies on a logistics provider that can ensure the optimized management of those products all along the cool chain.

Telecom

The growing importance of mobile high-bandwidth services, i.e. being connected anytime and anywhere, video communication, as well as media-driven entertainment, have stimulated and will continue to stimulate significant investments in wireless telecommunications infrastructures.

Panalpina Digital Hub

The Panalpina Digital Hub is an initiative that sees us embracing new and emerging technologies, and exploring how we can tweak and adapt those to allow us to offer our customers the very best in new digital solutions.

Panalpina recognizes the importance of innovative technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and the Uberization of logistics and we want to remain absorbed in the latest developments, all for the benefit of our customers.

With this in mind, we established the Panalpina Digital Hub with the wide-ranging remit to explore, play and develop. We also engage: we know that start-ups are often transformative and disruptive. We want to engage with them and to bring ground-breaking innovative products to the industry and to our customers.

To increase its visibility in the digital ecosystem, Panalpina hasjoined the global innovation platform Plug and Play, the best known and most active accelerator program in the area of supply chain and logistics.The goal is to test, develop and validate promising start-up technologies before potential commercialization. The Digital Hub aims to shape Panalpina’s future with innovative digital solutions that create new levels of value for customers and accelerate growth for the company.

Panalpina also invested in Cargo sous terrain (CST), an initiative aimed at revolutionizing logistics. CST envisions an automated, digitally controlled comprehensive logistics system in Switzerland by 2045, aimed at promoting economic competitiveness and improving quality of life. As a shareholder, Panalpina is represented on the CST supervisory board. Read more about Panalpina's involvement in Cargo sous terrain.

You might also be interested in reading the media release that was issued at the launch of the Panalpina Digital Hub.

The new team is led by Dr Luca Graf, who is head of digital innovation and head of the Panalpina Digital Hub. Read the interview with Luca Graf, where he explains the Digital Hub.

Want to be part of the Panalpina Digital Hub?

As a new team we are developing and growing. The Panalpina Digital Hub is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, though we will also be very active in Berlin and Hamburg, two European hotspots with a strong LogTech digital start-up ecosystem.